[
US
/ˈmɪsəɫ/
]
[ UK /mˈɪsaɪl/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪsaɪl/ ]
NOUN
- a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
- a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control
How To Use missile In A Sentence
- One could argue that such a missile defence system would bring about the abandonment of ballistic missiles as strategic weapons.
- We lob cruise missiles and I am not critical of that, but I think that has been the attitude - well they are not going to respond.
- Thomas had a mission, to destroy the missile and prevent the shapechanger from carrying out his criminal activities.
- The missile is aimed specifically to destroy military targets.
- Exhaust fumes from the Apache engines are also cooled as they emerge to make it difficult for heat-seeking missiles to seek and destroy the aircraft.
- The antidote is intended to protect residents from radioactive fallout from any missile attack on the nuclear station.
- This is just the ground-based portion of a multilayered missile defense system, which will eventually include space-based and sea launched intercepts.
- On the same day that his government launched missiles at what it described as weapons facilities, Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
- The newer system uses a much smaller missile with an infrared terminal guidance system.
- Forget the Parthenon and the Acropolis; these days the Patriot Missile launchers unsubtly stationed across the city are the tourist sites du jour.